Journal of Italian Philosophy

Aims & Scope

The journal's perimeter is drawn around the peninsula of Italy. Italian philosophy has in recent years been ushered ever more determinedly into the limelight — a number of major academic publishers have book series devoted to Italian thought: SUNY Press, Seagull, MIT, Bloomsbury, and notable work has long been carried out by Stanford University Press, Semiotext(e), and the University of Minnesota Press, among others. A Society for Italian Philosophy has been founded. If we are compelled to limit our scope, it cannot avoid a certain measure of arbitrariness; and yet Italian thought in particular has proved itself to be a genuine original in the context of the philosophy of the last century and to have made a crucial intervention in philosophy in the state in which it found itself in the 1990’s, as the almost immeasurably powerful thrust of the French philosophy of the post-war years and the 1960’s in particular was beginning to ebb. If Italian philosophy is a ‘niche’, we are glad to be able to provide a means for having broadened such a niche. And after all, philosophy can rarely do without a certain nationality, bound up more or less tightly with its national natural language, at least in the modern age if not always, and this does not stop it from being the purest Philosophy.

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